Space Exploration

Launching in 2028, China’s Tianwen-3 Mars sample return mission could bring Red Planet rocks back to Earth as early as 2031—years ahead of competing U.S.-European efforts

To achieve its ambitious plans for missions to the moon and beyond, Russia needs other spacefaring nations as partners. But the war in Ukraine is making that help increasingly hard to find

Later this year a tiny rover will carry out an unusual lunar task

This explorer spacecraft is heading to a rare asteroid with a naked metal core. It could hold clues to how Earth began

Spacecraft can get a significant boost by stealing energy from planets

The first images of the cosmos taken by the world’s largest digital camera onboard the Vera C. Rubin Observatory are about to be released to the public. Here’s how to watch the action live

A vitriolic war of words between President Donald Trump and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk could have profound repercussions for the nation’s civil and military space programs

Investigations by the Japanese company ispace identified issues with speed and an altitude sensor that likely doomed the lander

The White House’s budget plan for NASA would be woefully inadequate for achieving near-term human voyages to Mars, experts say

Scientists are rallying to reverse ruinous proposed cuts to both NASA and the National Science Foundation

NASA has quietly taken steps to prepare for a death in space. We need to ask how nations will deal with this inevitability now, as more people start traveling off the planet

Starbase, SpaceX’s launch site turned company town in South Texas, faces local opposition from residents outside the city limits